Saturday’s third AFL Round 15 match is between Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles with the game to be played at Patersons Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 2:40 PM local time with home team Fremantle Dockers currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles.
Round: Round 15 , June 28, 2014 , 2:40 PM
Stadium: Patersons Stadium
Weather: 18° Partly cloudy.
Preview:
In an exciting local derby, Fremantle play the West Coast Eagles on Saturday, 2.40PM at Patersons Stadium. This is the 40th Western Derby and both sides are going into it with great form. The Eagles have won their last two games against St Kilda and the Gold Coast, and the Dockers have won five straight as they look forward to the finals in 4th position. While this is a tough game to predict in many respects, most of the money will be on Fremantle, who have beaten the Eagles by an average of 35 points in their last four matches. While the Eagles have the fire power to trouble the Dockers, Fremantle have the best defence in the AFL.
Teams:
FREMANTLE
B Lee Spurr, Zac Dawson, Paul Duffield
HB Tendai Mzungu, Garrick Ibbotson, Stephen Hill
C David Mundy, Ryan Crowley, Danyle Pearce
HF Lachie Neale, Chris Mayne, Colin Sylvia
F Hayden Ballantyne, Matthew Pavlich, Zac Clarke
FOLL Aaron Sandilands, Nat Fyfe, Nick Suban
I/C Michael Barlow, Clancee Pearce, Matt Taberner,Cameron Sutcliffe
EMG Tommy Sheridan, Kepler Bradley, Anthony Morabito
IN Matt Taberner
OUT Alex Silvagni (Ribs)
WEST COAST
B Will Schofield, Eric Mackenzie, Sam Butler
HB Brad Sheppard, Mitchell Brown, Shannon Hurn
C Matt Rosa, Matt Priddis, Chris Masten
HF Sharrod Wellingham, Josh Kennedy, Jack Darling
F Dean Cox, Jeremy McGovern, Mark LeCras
FOLL Nic Naitanui, Luke Shuey, Mark Hutchings
I/C Xavier Ellis, Jamie Bennell, Patrick McGinnity, Andrew Gaff
EMG Jacob Brennan, Jamie Cripps, Scott Lycett
IN Dean Cox, Patrick McGinnity
OUT Jamie Cripps (Omitted), Scott Lycett (Omitted)
News:
The AFL is meeting with club doctors to work out how to better manage player concussions during matches.
It follows a league investigation into Geelong’s management of Allen Christensen, who was back on the field only a few minutes after receiving a knock during the loss to Gold Coast last weekend.
AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said its medical officer Dr Peter Harcourt had already met with the Cats medical staff.
Concussion has become a major issue in contact sports worldwide.
“One of the issues as an industry we have to try and get to a better place with is the consistency of the management around onfield incidents, that may or may not have involved a concussion,” Evans said.
“Diagnosis of concussion is difficult and best left to an expert.
“It’s sometimes easy to call something from the armchair when you don’t have all the information.”
Brisbane key forward Jonathan Brown, one of the greatest players of the modern era, retired on Monday after being concussed against Greater Western Sydney earlier this month.
It was the third heavy knock to his head in the last 12 months.